The main sequence is comprised of approximately 200 entries dealing with almost all aspects of Arabic manuscript studies (codicology and paleography); includes appendices covering abbreviations, letterforms, såurah-headings, major reference works, and a guide to the description of manuscripts, as well as charts of major historical periods and dynasties.

This book guides librarians in defining and marketing their services, covering topics such as co-authorship, stakeholders, developing documentation and conducting the reference interview, systematic reviews standards, search strategy techniques, and best practices for reporting the findings.

Assessment is increasingly important to higher education. Tight budgets and scarce resources demand accountability from the entire academy, including the library. Librarians must be prepared to document the impact of the programs they create, the collections they develop, and the services they offer. Liaison librarians in academic libraries focus on engagement with academic units and outreach to students, faculty, and the community of scholars. In a series of scholarly essays, Assessing Liaison Librarians: Documenting Impact for Positive Change examines how academic libraries assess liaison activities and offers recommendations for documenting the impact of programs and services. Individual chapters address liaison activities relating to collection development; library instruction; research services; engagement and outreach; online, blended and other learning environments, including MOOCs; scholarly communications and information technology; the importance of assessment in the 21st century research library; and professional development of liaisons librarians.

Advances in medical research, pharmaceuticals, treatment options, and biotechnology are occurring at an explosive rate. As of 2009, there are 19 million of biomedical research abstracts available on MEDLINE and 1.3 billion searches of MEDLINE are done in 2009. Most of the popular search engines, from Google to PubMed, use keyword-based information retrieval methods, often overloading users with irrelevant information. At the same time, keyword-based search engines cannot answer simple biomedical questions, such as "what are the breast cancer treatment drugs" or "what are the breast cancer associated genes". Answering such questions requires machine understandable knowledge to be extracted from free text. My thesis represents an automated system to extract machine understandable biomedical information from MEDLINE abstracts using machine learning and natural language processing ( NLP ) techniques. The system is different from current biomedical information extraction systems in the following: 1. the system is semi-supervised where the only human supervision is a single pattern for each information type; 2. it can be used to extract broad types of information, including named entities and relationships among entities.

This book builds a research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed decisions in the workplace. The book takes an open and encompassing approach to exploring evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) and the ways it can improve the practice of librarianship. Bringing together recent theory, research, and case studies, the book provides librarians with a new reference point for how they can use and create evidence within their practice, in order to better meet the needs of their communities. Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice is divided into two parts; in the first part the editors explore the background to EBLIP and put forward a new model for its application in the workplace which encompasses 5 elements: Articulate, Assemble, Assess, Agree, Adapt. In the second part, contributors from academic, public, health, school and special libraries from around the world provide an overview of EBLIP developments in their sector and offer examples of successful implementation. The book will be essential reading for library and information professionals from all sectors who want to make more informed decisions and better meet the needs of their users. The book will also be of interest to students of library and information studies and researchers.

The health sciences publishing environment -- One library's story: putting together a collection to support a new medical school -- Managing a health sciences collection -- One library's story: Duke University Medical Center librarians learn to embrace weeding projects -- Managing a collection budget -- One library's story: creating and sustaining a hospital library consortium for purchasing online journals -- User-oriented collection assessment -- One library's story: All or nothing: the University of California walks away from ClinicalKey -- Collaborative collection management -- One library's story: building a Texas-sized shared print repository -- Discovery of the health sciences collection -- One library's story: supporting a reimagined medical school curriculum with targeted library collections and licenses -- Usability and accessibility for health sciences collections -- One library's story: developing accessibility purchasing procedures for electronic resources at the Michigan State University Libraries -- Data in the library: considerations for collection development policy and practice -- The hunt of the unicorn: collection development for special collections in health sciences libraries -- The future of health sciences collection management.

Written by an expert in the field with multiple industry certifications, this definitive resource fully addresses information security and privacy considerations and their implications within the business of patient care. The book begins with an overview of the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare and discusses technology, terminology, and data management principles. The topic coverage continues across all aspects of information security and privacy, with a special emphasis on real-life scenarios in clinical practices and business operations in healthcare. Learn best practices for healthcare information security and privacy with detailed coverage of essential topics such as information governance, roles and occupations, risk assessment and management, incident response, patient rights, and cybersecurity. Written for a global audience, this comprehensive guide addresses U.S. laws and regulations as well as those within the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada.--Publisher description.

Writing a medical paper, or any other scientific text, is full of pitfalls which make it difficult to get it accepted for publication. This unique book gives practical advice on how one can circumvent these dangers. It is richly filled with examples, predominantly negative ones. which exhibit how one should not write a medical paper. This book highlights the fallibilities that manuscripts are often susceptible to, and hence will help writers avoid committing those mistakes. Special Features: Abundant information about a complex subject condensed in a small format Numerous examples from bad man.

The recent years have seen a tremendous growth in research and developments in science and technology, and an emphasis in obtaining Intellectual Property (IP) protection for one's innovations. Information pertaining to IP for science and technology is siloed into many diverse sources and consists of laws, regulations, patents, court litigations, scientific publications, and more. Although a great deal of legal and scientific information is now available online, the scattered distribution of the information, combined with the enormous sizes and complexities, makes any attempt to gather relevant IP-related information on a specific technology a daunting task. In this thesis, we develop a knowledge-based software framework to facilitate retrieval of patents and related information across multiple diverse and uncoordinated information sources in the US patent system. The document corpus covers issued US patents, court litigations, scientific publications, and patent file wrappers in the biomedical technology domain. A document repository is to be populated with issued US patents, court cases, scientific publications, and file wrappers in XML format. Parsers are developed to automatically download documents from the information sources. Additionally, the parser also extracts metadata and textual content from the downloaded documents and populates the XML repository. A text index is built over the repository using Apache Lucene, to facilitate search and retrieval of documents. Based on the document repository, the underlying methodology to search across multiple information sources in the patent system is discussed. The methodology is divided into two major parts. First, we develop a knowledge-based query expansion methodology to tackle domain terminological inconsistencies in the documents. Relevant knowledge is retrieved from external sources such as domain ontologies. Since our goal is to retrieve a collection of relevant documents across multiple sources, we develop a patent system ontology to provide interoperability between the different types of documents and to facilitate information integration. We discuss the Information Retrieval (IR) framework which combines the knowledge-based query expansion methodology with the patent system ontology to provide a multi-domain search methodology. A visualization tool based on term co-occurrence is developed that can be used to browse the document repository through class hierarchies of domain ontologies. The knowledge-based query expansion methodology is evaluated through formal measures such as precision and recall. A simple term-based search is used as a baseline reference for comparison. Additionally, the results from related works are also used for comparison. A series of common questions asked during patent prior art searches and infringement analysis are generated to evaluate the patent system ontology. A summary of the results and analysis is provided.

"This book provides a central source of reference on the various data management techniques of large scale data processing and its technology application. This book presents chapters written by leading researchers, academics, and practitioners in the field, all of which have been reviewed by independent reviewers. The book covers the latest research discoveries and applications. Coverage includes cloud data management architectures, big data analytics visualization, data management, analytics for vast amounts of unstructured data, clustering, classification, link analysis of big data, scalable data mining, and machine learning techniques"-- Provided by publisher.

Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria Librarians Association on the future of the scroll and what to do about the rising barbarian tide.) At no time in our memory, though, have these discussions and conversations been so profound and critical. Here one of today's leading thinkers and speakers about the future of libraries brings together 30 leaders from all types of libraries and from outside librarianship to describe their vision of what the library will be in 2020. Contributors and Library Journal's The Annoyed Librarian were asked to describe the "library of 2020, "in whatever terms they wanted, either a specific library or situation or libraries in general. They were told: "be bold, be inspirational, be hopeful, be true, be provocative, be realistic, be depressing, be light-hearted, be thoughtful, be fun, be yourself, and for heaven's sake, don't be boring." Not that they could be. Broadly representative of important perspectives and aspects within the profession as well as featuring important voices beyond the professional realm, Library 2020 presents thought-provoking and illuminating visions from many points of view. It is both required reading for library leaders and trustees as well as an ideal supplemental text for LIS classes looking at the future of the profession.

Includes all of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian from the print dictionaries. Users can search the full A-Z from both sides of the dictionary in Oxford's unabridged bilingual dictionaries: French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

"In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology"--Provided by publisher.

It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. To meet this challenge, colleges and universities are adding data services to existing infrastructures by drawing on the expertise of information professionals who are already involved in the acquisition, management and preservation of data in their daily jobs. Data services include planning and implementing good data management practices, thereby increasing researchers' ability to compete for grant funding and ensuring that data collections with continuing value are preserved for reuse. This volume provides a framework to guide information professionals in academic libraries, presses, and data centers through the process of managing research data from the planning stages through the life of a grant project and beyond. It illustrates principles of good practice with use-case examples and illuminates promising data service models through case studies of innovative, successful projects and collaborations.

Research and librarianship -- Developing the research study -- Principles of quantitative methods -- Survey research -- Experimental research -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Principles of qualitative methods -- Individual interviews -- Ethnographic approaches to qualitative research -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Historical research -- Applied research -- Writing the research proposal -- Written and oral presentation of the research project.

"Data analysis is changing fast. Driven by a vast range of application domains and affordable tools, machine learning has become mainstream. Unsupervised data analysis, including cluster analysis, factor analysis, and low dimensionality mapping methods continually being updated, have reached new heights of achievement in the incredibly rich data world that we inhabit.Statistical Learning and Data Science is a work of reference in the rapidly evolving context of converging methodologies. It gathers contributions from some of the foundational thinkers in the different fields of data analysis to the major theoretical results in the domain. On the methodological front, the volume includes conformal prediction and frameworks for assessing confidence in outputs, together with attendant risk. It illustrates a wide range of applications, including semantics, credit risk, energy production, genomics, and ecology. The book also addresses issues of origin and evolutions in the unsupervised data analysis arena, and presents some approaches for time series, symbolic data, and functional data. Over the history of multidimensional data analysis, more and more complex data have become available for processing. Supervised machine learning, semi-supervised analysis approaches, and unsupervised data analysis, provide great capability for addressing the digital data deluge. Exploring the foundations and recent breakthroughs in the field, Statistical Learning and Data Science demonstrates how data analysis can improve personal and collective health and the well-being of our social, business, and physical environments. "-- Provided by publisher.

This book is organized as a practical guide to writing a biomedical research article. Hence, as you will see from the table of contents, chapters are arranged according to the sequence of tasks that we normally encounter in our writing. The book deals only with writing and submission of manuscripts; there are no directions concerning, for example, the preparation of figures or audiovisual presentations. Furthermore, every chapter is concise; we do not beat topics to death. Exemplars of highly prevalent expressions are given throughout, however the number of examples in the book is not excessive.

Continuously expanding, all databases in the repository
contain the latest editions of selected medical titles.

MicroMedex: Premier pharmaceutical
information source containing multiple databases and drug reference
tools. Of particular value is DRUGDEX Evaluations, one of the most
comprehensive drug sources available.DynaMed
Plus is a clinical information resource used to answer questions
quickly at the point-of-care. Easy-to-interpret Levels of
Evidence help clinicians rapidly determine the quality of the
available evidence.

Biomedical and pharmacological
abstracting and indexing database of published literature, by
Elsevier. Embase® contains over 32 million records from over 8,500
currently published journals (1947-present) and is noteworthy for
its extensive coverage of the international pharmaceutical and
alternative/complementary medicine literature.

Multidisciplinary
coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social
sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international
proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

Includes cited reference searching, citation maps, and an
analyze tool.

Features
systematic reviews that summarize the effects of interventions and
makes a determination whether the intervention is efficacious or
not.

Cochrane reviews are created through a strict process of
compiling and analyzing data from multiple randomized control trials
to ensure comprehensiveness and reliability.

Provides systematic coverage of the
psychological literature from the 1800s to the present through
articles, book chapters and dissertations.BMJ
Clinical Evidence. A clinical information tool built around
systematic reviews summarizing the current state of knowledge about
prevention and treatment of clinical conditions.PIER (Physicians' Information and Education
Resource) is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid
point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for
primary care physicians.Cochrane
Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) provides access to
300,000 controlled trials that have been identified the Cochrane
Collaboration.Provides drug
information targeted for patients.A
continually updating drug monograph.The National Guideline
Clearinghouse (NGC): A comprehensive database of evidence-based
clinical practice guidelines and related documents.MedlinePlus: A repository of health
information from the National Library of Medicine. Links are from
trusted sites. No advertising, no endorsement of commercial companies
or productsLPCH
CareNotes via MicroMedex: Patient education handouts customized by
LPCH clinical staffMicromedex
Lab Advisor: Evidence based laboratory test informationA drug database organized by generic
name, trade name and drug class.LPCH /
Stanford Hospital Formulary.A
goldmine of trusted consumer health information from the world's
largest medical library.A trusted
source of expert advice for and about kids, providing the information
necessary to help patients and parents understand their unique needs.Provides patient handouts from the
American Academy of Family Physician.Access
to the Stanford Health Library for patients.Lane
provides access to over 5,000 eBooks many of which provide helpful
background material that will prepare you to better tackle primary
literature.

Largest,
broadest eBook package; covers all sciences, as well as technology
(including software), medicine, and humanities.

In addition to covering Wiley and Springer, MyiLibrary is also
the only provider for Oxford and Cambridge University Press titles.
No seat restrictions.

A
collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by
concept, and linked to terms in PubMed abstracts.

Over 10,000 notes outline the status of specific infections
within each country.

Large number of high quality software
and database programming titles from O'Reilly. Other software titles
are also available from Sams and Prentice Hall. Limited to 7
concurrent users.Vast
collection of software and database programming titles from multiple
publishers, including Microsoft Press.Largest
provider of engineering-related eBooks; includes titles in computer
science and biomedical engineering.Over
4,000 full-text e-books covering scientific and technical information
from CRC Press and others. Many handbooks and single volume reference
sources.Includes
peer-reviewed life science and biomedical research protocols compiled
from Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine,
Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Neuromethods, the Biomethods Handbook, the Proteomics Handbook, and
Springer Laboratory Manuals.Contains
full text access to selected biomedical and nursing books.

Provides online, full-text
access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other
publishers.

Collection of
over 8 thousand fulltext titles in engineering, math, and basic and
applied biomedical research. Coverage is from 1967 to the present.A library of ebooks on a wide array of
topics, digitized and made available online in conjunction with the
original publishers.